The Past, Present and Future of the Chicago Red Stars
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Claire Watkins is back on Full Time to discuss the Chicago Red Stars, following the release of her exhaustive investigative report on the team this week. We discuss her new full time role at Just Women’s Sports, her reporting, and what comes next for the Red Stars — plus, a quick celebration of the new 2023 World Cup mascot.
Follow Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScoutRipley
Read her Chicago Red Stars story at Defector: https://defector.com/how-the-chicago-red-stars-became-the-epitome-of-nwsl-dysfunction/
Subscribe to the JWS newsletter: https://justwomenssports.com/newsletter/
Here’s Meg’s Red Stars story at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/3705608/
Our World Cup draw guide: https://theathletic.com/3704486/
Meg and Steph Yang on the NWSL quarterfinals: https://theathletic.com/3702263/
And our NWSL playoffs guide: https://theathletic.com/3691227/
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| 0:54.4 | Athletic Podcast Network. You may be hearing the soundtrack of a small doxin snoring next to me while I |
| 1:00.3 | record this episode, just to warn you. Claire Watkins is back again to discuss the Red Stars this time |
| 1:06.9 | following a lengthy investigative report on the systemic dysfunction of the team that was |
| 1:12.1 | released this week at Defector Media from her. I also had some Red Stars reporting on their |
| 1:16.6 | minority investors and some governance matters here at the Athletics, so we're going to get into |
| 1:21.2 | her reporting at length as well as some larger topics about the team and its future. I do want to |
| 1:26.5 | warn you, there are at least a few |
| 1:27.8 | listeners out here who are going to care about this. There are some sad mentions of the Boston |
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| 2:02.8 | Okay, news. So much news. |
| 2:05.3 | But let's start with the NWSL playoffs. |
| 2:07.3 | First round is done. The current and the wave go water. |
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